New Photo Album

Take  a look at the new Photo Album - click on GUIRV workshops. It has images and words describing a number of the activities engaged in by students from both Heywood and Monivae Secondary College.

Comments

[G Simkin]

Karen, some feedback from students.
GURC : Problems living in the Country
Survey of two year 8 classes at Monivae College

Problems for you
No ‘Supre’ or good shops 3 10
No rugby union 1
Far away from big cities 5 2
Transport is not very good 4 4
Hard to see AFL games 2
Too far from the beach 2
Sport is not competitive 6
Difficult to be involved activities or visit friends due to distance and travel 2 2
Nothing to do 2 2
Bad phone coverage 3

Problems for your Parents
Not enough good shops 5 10
Not many jobs 2 3
Far away from big cities 2 3
Transport is not very good 2 2
Difficult to be involved activities or visit friends due to distance and travel 11 3
Bad phone coverage 4
More car accidents 4

Interesting the similarity with issues.
I would be keen to find out more about what are seen as major problems living in the country. They didn't mention having to go to big cities, away from home for further education and given their use of mobile phones and internet, I thought that may have been listed more.